Re: [MacPerl] HTML Entities decoding

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 22:39 -0500 9/14/99, Matthew Langford wrote:
>It isn't wrong by (that) standard, but for communicating a specific
>character, it could be misleading.  As you say, this is not exactly
>wrong--but it may give different results from both web browsers on the
>Mac, and may not ever reflect the char intended by the publisher.

That's why these nonstandard character entities are not used by careful
HTML creators.  Since they are nonstandard, there's no telling (except for
experiments on every version of every browser which comes down the road)
what's going to happen.

And even then, of course, you don't know what character is in those
positions in the font used for the display.  (If you force a very common
font which has the character you want, you have a good shot.)

  --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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